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film that now beclouds, and darkens our mental vision shall be purged away. And if in the midst of our profound ignorance we are yet able to receive such a high degree of gratification from the revelations of God in his works, and in his word; if in the contemplation of the beautiful analogy that now subsists between them we are able to find so many delightful sources of contemplation opened to us; what indeed shall be our enjoyment and satisfaction, when, in the highest sense of the sacred language, “ the secrets of the Most High shall be with us, and by his light we shall be enabled to walk through all darkness." To that high and holy fruition of the glorified spirits, it must be our duty continually to look forward. For in the midst of so much that is lovely and captivating around us, there is, also still much more of sin and wretchedness. The whole creation as yet groaneth, and travaileth, and waiteth for its redemption. See Rom. viii. 18–23. It is only therefore by directing the thoughts to a world of boundless light, knowledge, and happiness, of which the present affords but a dim anticipation, that man can be assisted to learn how "all things work together for good to them that love God." And further, it is only by connecting both worlds in his view, that man can either understand his place in the scale of being, or be led to seek after the glorious prize of immortality. The greatest of our poets observes—

What if earth

Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to the other like, more than is thought?'

Who indeed can doubt that as an uninterrupted chain of beings descends from man to brutes, from brutes to insects; so it ascends likewise by the same

beautiful gradation from man to angel, to archangel, and to inconceivable orders of celestial spirits. How sublime, then, how unutterable the idea of these glorious beings standing around the throne of their great Creator, and hymning forth his praises as they did on the first morning of creation! How overwhelming the thought that the dignity of the highest of these beings, bears after all no greater proportion to that of Him who dwells in unapproachable glory, than a gilded cloud on which the evening sun has impressed his beams, does to the great abyss of light from which it derives its reflected beauty!

Considerations of this sort when applied to ourselves may well lead us to exclaim with David, "Lord what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” They may also teach us, while we fall down and adore the riches of God's mercy in Christ, to cultivate more earnestly that knowledge of God in his works and his word, by which only we can be raised above "the clods of the valley;" and by which we shall be permitted at length, in virtue of a true and lively union with Christ, to stand complete in him who is the head of all principality, and power; to take our station among the highest of celestial beings, and again to wear a more dazzling crown of immortality; a more glorious robe of righteousness than Adam wore when he was first created in the image of his Maker, and proclaimed king of this lower universe. E. B.

An unbelieving soul treads upon the promise, as a man upon ice at first going on it; it is full of fears and tumultuous thoughts lest it should crack.-Gurnall.

ST. KEYNE WELL.

IN name, in shape, in quality
This well is very quaint;
The name to lot of Kayne befel
-No over-holy saint.

זיי

The shape-four trees of divers kind

Withy, Oak, Elm and Ash,

Make with their roots an arched roofe,

Whose floor this spring doth wash.

The quality that man or wife

Whose chance or choice attains

First of this sacred stream to drinke

Thereby the mastery gains.

Old Legend.

Did this Well indeed possess the quality thus ascribed to it, the little village of St. Keyne would we doubt not be more frequented; its present peace disturbed, and this very place where prayer is now wont to be made, rendered a scene of occasional confusion, For the mastery seems the aim of many married per sons; yet where this unscriptural and unblest point has been gained, (especially by the wife,) though many a coarse joke may be furnished for a godless world; though good order and discipline may prevail, yet seek not in that dwelling for domestic happinessthe only bliss of Paradise that has survived the fall. No! the order of heaven (ever the best judge of what is best) is perverted; each party is in the wrong place; there is a want of principle, and the woman has sacrificed one of the sweetest attributes of her sex.

'O blest with temper whose unclouded ray,
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day;
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,
And if she rules him, never shews she rules;
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways,
Yet has her humour most when she obeys.'

Mr. Simeon relates of Mr. and Mrs. Thomason, that during the ten years he lodged with them, they never had an angry word. This is a rare instance, for the marriage state brings many trials as well as comforts. We become too so intimately acquainted with each other's failings and follies, with the weak points and angles of our characters, which, if rudely exposed,

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cut to the quick, and are felt as a breach of confidence! Then servants, children, pecuniary matters, and familý affairs place us in new and untried positions, and call continually for the exercise of sympathy, tenderness, mutual confidence to bear and forbear. Husband and wife therefore are like lock and key which should fit exactly, and which will rather break than open except the wards be answerable. To one who considers that marriage is an honorable estate instituted of God in the time of man's innocency, and a lovely type of the union betwixt Christ and his Church, what can be more grievous and depressing than to witness either the stern repulsive tyranny, or cold indifference of ai husband towards "the weaker vessel," or the crossgrained, uncivil, disrespectful bearing of a wife toward her lord. Impossible can it be for these to unite in their religious duties, or exercise that holy influence over their household which ensures affection and respect. Impossible can it be for these, who have embittered this world to each other, to look with any just hope to a world above

Whose atmosphere is holy love.'

Reader! wouldst thon visit the well of St. Keyne ? Seek not its crystal spring as waters of strife, but see rather a pleasing emblem of the marriage state. The trees that stand as a group, and form a roof to the well are of different height, nature, and size; yet are their roots so interwoven as to make at the bottom one mass. And should it not be thus with those who are heirs together of the grace of life? The rapturous ecstacy of youthful love may have subsided; the winds of adversity may have stripped them of their green spring beauty; age may have chilled the current